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François Boucher (artist) French, 1703 - 1770 Venus Consoling Love, 1751 oil on canvas Overall: 107 x 84.8 cm (42 1/8 x 33 3/8 in.) framed: 132.1 x 110.2 x 7.6 cm (52 x 43 3/8 x 3 in.) Chester Dale Collection 1943.7.2 |
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| 1880 | Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880: I: 192 |
| 1903 | "Madame de Pompadour et les Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 3rd ser., vol. 62 (August 1903): 402 |
| 1903 | Nolhac, Pierre de. "Quelques tableaux de Boucher de la Collection de M. le Baron Alfred de Rothschild (Londres)." Les Arts. 20 (August 1903): 2-4, repro. cover |
| 1906 | Michel, André. François Boucher. Paris, 1906: no. 305 |
| 1907 | Nolhac, Pierre de. François Boucher: premier peintre du roi. Paris, 1907: 47, 124, repro. opposite 124 |
| 1925 | Nolhac, Pierre de. Boucher, premier peintre du roi. Paris, 1925: 95 |
| 1932 | |
| 1932 | Beaux-Arts 10 (May 1932): repro. p. 9 |
| 1932 | "$31,000 for Painting: Sales from Lady Curzon's Collection Total $93,672." The New York Sun. 23 April 1932:18 |
| 1932 | "Boucher Painting Sold for $31,000." The New York Times. 23 April 1932: 34 |
| 1932 | "Chester Dale Secures Important Boucher from Curzon Collection in American-Anderson Galleries' Sale." Art News, 30, no. 31 (30 April 1932): 5+ |
| 1932 | Cortissoz, Royal, "François Boucher, Apropos of a Painting now in New York." The New York Herald Tribune. 1 May 1932:VII:10, repro. |
| 1939 | Cordey, Jean. Inventaire des biens de Madame de Pompadour rédigé après don décès. Paris, 1939: no. 1230 |
| 1939 | Horticq, Louis. La Peinture française XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1939: repro. frontispiece |
| 1942 | French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 16, repro. |
| 1943 | Washington Times-Herald 18 July 1943:C-10 |
| 1944 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 114, color repro. |
| 1944 | French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 16, repro. |
| 1953 | French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 19, repro. |
| 1956 | Einstein, Lewis. "Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." GBA. 6th ser., vol. 67, no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 227, repro. 223 |
| 1956 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 46, repro. |
| 1959 | Cooke, Hereward Lester. French Paintings of the 16th-18th Centuries in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Four in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 34, color repro. |
| 1963 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 210, repro. |
| 1965 | Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 19, repro. |
| 1965 | Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 17 |
| 1966 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:314, color repro. |
| 1968 | European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 10, repro. |
| 1975 | European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 38, repro. |
| 1975 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 334-5, no. 447, repro. |
| 1976 | Ananoff, Alexandre. "François Boucher et l'Amérique." Oeil. 251 (June 1976): 22 |
| 1976 | Ananoff, Alexandre. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne, 1976: II: 80-82, no. 377, repro. |
| 1984 | Norton, Thomas E. 100 Years of Collecting in America: the Story of Sotheby Parke Bernet. New York, 1984: 116 |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 332, no. 443, color repro. |
| 1985 | European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 57, repro. |
| 1986 | François Boucher, 1703-1770. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts; Grand Palais, Paris. New York, c. 1986: 256 |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 170, repro. |
| 1998 | Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition: Faith, Reason and Power in the Early Modern World. New York, 1998, no. 26.7, repro. |
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